crescent

Definitions

ncrescentany shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Interesting fact:
The Red Cross is called the Red Crescent in Arab countries

CrescentA representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge

CrescentA symbol of Artemis, or Diana.

CrescentAny one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by René of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.

CrescentAnything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.

CrescentIncreasing; growing."O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set.""Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty."

CrescentShaped like a crescent."Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns."

CrescentThe ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.

Crescent(Her) The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.

CrescentThe emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople.

CrescentThe increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.

CrescentTo adorn with crescents.

CrescentTo form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

crescentIncreasing; growing: specifically applied to the moon during its first quarter, when its visible portion is increasing in area, in the curved form called a crescent (see II.).

crescentShaped like the appearance of the moon during its first quarter.

ncrescentThe period of apparent growth or increase of the moon in its first quarter: as, the moon is in its crescent.

ncrescentThe increasing part of the moon in its first quarter, or the similarly shaped decreasing part in its last quarter, when it presents a bow of light terminating in points or horns: as, the crescent of the moon.

ncrescentThe moon itself in either its first or its last quarter; the new or the old moon.

ncrescentSomething in the shape of the crescent moon; a crescent-shaped object, construction, device, or symbol. Specifically— The Turkish standard, which bears the figure of a crescent, and, figuratively, the Turkish military power itself. The use of the crescent as the Turkish emblem dates from the conquest of Constantinople (1453); it had been considered in a sense an emblem of the city, and was assumed by the Turkish sultans in commemoration of their signal conquest.

ncrescentIn heraldry, a bearing in the form of a young or new moon, usually borne horizontally with the horns uppermost. See decrescent and increscent.

ncrescentIn architecture, a range of buildings in the form of a crescent or half-moon: as, Lansdowne Crescent in London.

ncrescentA Turkish military musical instrument with bells or jingles.

ncrescentA defect in a horse's foot, when the coffin-bone falls down.

ncrescentIn lace-making, a cordonnet of considerable projection inclosing part of the pattern of point-lace, giving it relief, and separating it from the ground or from other parts of the pattern. Thus, if a leaf is made of cloth-stitch, it may be surrounded by a crescent one eighth of an inch thick and with half as much projection, and this again by a ring of ornamental loops or couronnes.

ncrescentA small roll of bread of various kinds, made in the form of a crescent.

I would like to thank the staff over at the Crescent Beach, North Myrtle Beach, recreation facility for their excellent cooperation with the Horry County Elections officials who worked our general election polls on Nov 6.

In science:

The [Ne iii] line is also relatively strong in each crescent region, but [Ne v] is very faint and not seen in the Southern crescent.

Spitzer Spectral Mapping of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

The [Ne v]/[Ne ii] ratio in the Northern crescent is (cid:38) 8× that of the Southern region, although the velocity difference between the two lines at that position is (cid:38) 1000 km/s, suggesting that the increased line of sight confusion in the Northern cap may play a role in this discrepancy.

Spitzer Spectral Mapping of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

The relative abundance increases from nNe/nAr=2.7 averaged over the full remnant to nNe/nAr=26 on the S crescent region.

Spitzer Spectral Mapping of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

Young et al. 2006), the momentum impulse imparted by the kick to the neutron star is then (cid:38) 1000× larger than that of either neon crescent.

Spitzer Spectral Mapping of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

If the gross layering of pre-explosion elements is preserved, the strong overabundance of neon in these crescents along the direction of the kick vector could in fact represent material which is late in meeting the reverse shock, having been accelerated to slightly slower initial speeds.

In particular for the m = 2 wakes, which would be the direct cause of the integral-shaped warps, two crescent-shaped wakes are seen in Fig. 15.

Contribution of the Large Magellanic Cloud to the Galactic Warp

Toward the observer the reﬂecting face of the near jet hemisphere will be crescent-shaped and that of the far jet hemisphere will be gibbous.

A Simple Bipolar Jet Model for the Polarization of Core-Collapse Supernovae

For the largely incomplete IP5 light curve, the red arm appears distorted into a crescent-shape asymmetry in the disc side moving away from the secondary star.

HST/FOS Time-resolved spectral mapping of IP Pegasi at the end of an outburst

The difference attributable to glint peaks in crescent phase, and in crescent phase the total (unpolarized) reﬂectance of the glint also is maximized.

Observations of Extrasolar Planets Enabled by a Return to the Moon

We see from these panels that the fast shock expands sidewards and backwards simultaneously as it propagates forward, and forms a crescent feature around the ﬂux rope.

Numerical Experiments of Wave-Like Phenomena Caused by the Disruption of an Unstable Magnetic Configuration

The region of peak emission is crescent-shaped with a brightness peak displaced towards the Sun from the nucleus (Lisse et al., 1996, 1999).

X-rays from solar system objects

The two bright crescents symmetric to the center are images in the line of the O-Kα fluorescent emission, while the elongated enhancement at left is at the position of the C-Kα fluorescent emission line.

X-rays from solar system objects

Visually, a uniform domain is one where any pair of points x and y have a crescent shape1 of bounded eccentricity contained in Ω whose corners are x and y .

Bounded Mean Oscillation and the Uniqueness of Active Scalar Equations